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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
• This email message is a "New Partner from Paraguay" scam.
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • barfelix_ubagu@yahoo.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: johnfagbo2@zipmail.com.br
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 12:54:09 +0200
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?GOD=20HAS=20ANSWERED=20OUR=20PRAYER?=


From Mr John Fagbo

Reply to



I'm happy to inform you about my success in getting those funds transferred
under the compensation of a new partner from Saudi Arabia.

Presently I'm in Saudi Arabia for investment projects with my own share
of the total sum. Meanwhile, I did not forget you're past efforts and attempts
to assist me in transferring those funds despite that it failed us. Now
I want you to contact my lawyer in Benin.

with his direct phone number or email address and ask him to send you a
Certified Bankers Draft of ($850,000) eigth hundred and fifty thousand united
state dollars only which I kept for your compensation for all your past
efforts and attempts to assist me.

I appreciated your efforts at that time very much, so feel free and get
in touch with my lawyer and ask him how you will get the draft send to your
mailing address.
Please do let me know immediately when you receive it so that we can share
the joy after all the up and down at this time, in the moment, I'm very
busy here because of the investment projects which I and the new partner
are having at hand, finally,

remember that I had forwarded instruction to the lawyer on your behalf about
the draft, so feel free to get in touch with him to send the draft to you
without any delay.

Name of my lawyer Barrister Felix Ubagu
Email barfelix_ubagu@yahoo.co.uk

Best Regards,

Mr John Fagbo.

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